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Is the 2012 Trailer Anti Catholic?
cmr ^ | November 12, 2009 | Matthew Archbold

Posted on 11/13/2009 10:27:18 AM PST by NYer

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Several trailers also have wanton destruction of Buddhist temples and Tibet being engulfed by tidal waves and this is a major location area and thematic centered item in the movie. (the first trailer centered on nothing but this) so one could just as well ask it if it is anti-Buddhist.

::spoiler alert::
While there may be an intention meant, I believe they go for what they consider familiar images and include religious imagery to both bring it back to the Noah’s ark theme (you’ll understand when you see the movie) and the concept of shaking humanity down to their very core, the most fundamental aspects are threatened, not just life but faith. However, there is a twist outside the Mayan aspect that “this has happened before, it will happen again” that some will find interesting.


21 posted on 11/13/2009 10:47:54 AM PST by mnehring
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To: WrightOnTarget
I could not sit through the entire trailer. It is, in Polite Bronxese, $HIT.

Also saw John Cusack as well as Danny Glover. The usual cast of Hollywood idiots.

If Obama causes WE THE PEOPLE to revolt by doing something which really threatens out Republic(like canceling the 2010 elections because of terror attaches or some such pretext), I have a list of scumbags whose carcass I would personally like to run electricity through and those two are at the top of my list. Ammunition is too good for them.

Is this supposed to be a Christmas movie release? Typical!!!

I will save money by staying home and watching FOX News, TCM, etc. Life is good after all!

22 posted on 11/13/2009 10:48:29 AM PST by wmileo
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To: NYer

Because Catholics have bigger statues and cooler buildings. Who’s going to watch a movie about dinky Protestant statues and storefront churches collapsing? Boooorrrinnggggg....


23 posted on 11/13/2009 10:49:02 AM PST by Larry Lucido (This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
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To: svcw
Easily recognizable land marks.

Of course the film omits any "easily recognizable Muslim land marks" because of the filmmakers's abject cowardice. That makes it a fundamentally dishonest document. An eight-figure advertising budget that brings the trailer into television sets all over the world makes it an overt political statement, far more than "just a movie."

24 posted on 11/13/2009 10:49:35 AM PST by denydenydeny (The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein saw the local cemetery; raw material for experiments)
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To: detective

Anyone who purchases a ticket to a Hollywood movie or watches TV in a way that can be measured for revenue purposes is directly helping the anti-Christian propaganda of the Enemy.

If you can’t see a movie for free or steal a TV show by downloading it, don’t watch it.


25 posted on 11/13/2009 10:50:17 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: marron

I grew up on the ten commandments King of Kings Jesus of Nazareth and now we have this crap. Every chance hollywood gets it abuses God’s holy name, GD this JC that. Tv too. And hollywood has lots of money and who do they support,DEMS. Yep they make sick.


26 posted on 11/13/2009 10:51:55 AM PST by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: NYer

The Catholic Church is the only force over the past 1400 + years that has stopped and beaten Islam. I have issues with church especially the libs and scum at Notre dame and other “catholic” schools.

The reason why the church is attacked by the left is Islam knows it may be the only thing stopping them from total domination with the exception of china.


27 posted on 11/13/2009 10:54:10 AM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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To: denydenydeny

Well, I wouldn’t know an easily recognizable islamic fascist land mark if it bit me.
This movie is from Hollywood.......I take it for what its worth, which isn’t much.


28 posted on 11/13/2009 10:54:41 AM PST by svcw (The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. GW)
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To: NYer
I wouldn't worry too much about this. The reviews I have read say it is quite possibly the worst film of the year. The critics I read hated it with a passion and they are not Conservative leaning critics by any stretch of the imagination. Here's the first sentence of one of those reviews:

"2012 is a movie so bad that the Vatican is in talks with God to cancel the actual Armageddon altogether." (Massawyrm, AintItCoolNews.com)

Ouch! And it goes downhill from there. Let it die of its own awfulness. It won't last long.

29 posted on 11/13/2009 10:55:05 AM PST by Reaganesque ("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
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To: B-Chan

amen


30 posted on 11/13/2009 10:56:07 AM PST by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: svcw
Any idea on when THIS film comes out?


31 posted on 11/13/2009 10:56:18 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: a fool in paradise

Today


32 posted on 11/13/2009 11:05:11 AM PST by mnehring
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To: NYer

Just typical Hollyweird if you ask me.

BTW, he excluded Mecca from his destruction film because he feared the Islamic backlash.


33 posted on 11/13/2009 11:12:02 AM PST by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: NYer

Look at the bright side. It shows that Christendom has produced great structures worth destroying in a movie. Except for the Kaaba nothing notable worth destroying in the Islamic world.


34 posted on 11/13/2009 11:25:23 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Larry Lucido
Who’s going to watch a movie about dinky Protestant statues and storefront churches collapsing?


Hey, the Crystal Cathedral looks pretty big! In Hollywood lots of glass can rain down like a gazillion shards of evil....or whatever.
35 posted on 11/13/2009 11:29:28 AM PST by Since 2009-07-21
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To: al_c

The point of the Catholic references is to portray the Church as an impotent fraud, and the faith of its members as insupportable superstition which is incapable of saving even the most faithful adherents at a time of true crisis. The Church will survive the mocking slurs of this hollywood lowlife, just as it has time and time before.


36 posted on 11/13/2009 11:33:16 AM PST by littleharbour
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To: Since 2009-07-21
True. That's why plywood is recommended over crystal.


37 posted on 11/13/2009 11:35:04 AM PST by Larry Lucido (This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
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To: detective

The Passion of the Christ.


38 posted on 11/13/2009 12:10:09 PM PST by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: NYer
Watch the movie trailer .... here .

Or not! ;-)

39 posted on 11/13/2009 12:22:10 PM PST by mwilli20 (BO. Making communists proud all over the world.)
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To: murron
The Passion of the Christ was released in 2004. Entertainment Weekly described it as “the most controversial film of all times”. There were many attempts by the Hollywood establishment to prevent it from being released. Mel Gibson received death threats as a result of releasing this film.
This was the only film I can think of that fits this criteria and though it was very successful at the box office it was attacked repeatedly and no other films of this type have been made since.
40 posted on 11/13/2009 12:30:30 PM PST by detective
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